John Newton's Last Words — A Great Sinner, A Great Saviour
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John Newton wrote "Amazing Grace." Before that, he captained a slave ship.
He never claimed to have forgiven himself for it. At the end of his life he said: "My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Saviour."
He held both facts at once. The second one was louder. That's the shape of Christian peace.
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past does not become nothing. The past becomes, in Paul's word, a pattern, evidence of what God's patience can do. Which is why John Newton, the former slaveship captain who wrote Amazing Grace, said at the end of his life, "My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things. That I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great savior." He never forgave himself for the slave trade. He held both facts at once, and the second fact was
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